Short Trem Research Training for Veterinary Students

描述（由申请人提供）：在国家一级，对受过现代研究方法培训的熟练兽医科学家存在重大需求，这些兽医科学家代表了越来越多地利用（并受益于）比较医学方法的生物医学研究界的基本专业知识。该培训补助金申请的目的是为专业兽医学生提供短期研究经验，使他们能够获得特定的技术和概念技能，以进行涉及生物化学/分子，组织培养和/或疾病动物模型的基于假设的研究。我们的目标是激发对研究生涯的进一步兴趣，从研究生教育机会开始，可以包括DVM/MS相结合的课程，或者在完成DVM后获得博士学位的研究生教育。夏季研究经验将集中在刚刚完成专业课程的第一年在俄亥俄州州立大学兽医学院的学生。该学院拥有全国最大的学生人数（每班140人），并且能够越来越多地招募（和支持）希望探索研究经验的学生。该计划将通过兽医生物科学系（VBS）管理，该系拥有来自大学健康科学中心多个组成部分的完善的跨学科研究生教师。 这些基础和临床科学教师代表医学和兽医学院，儿童医院和综合癌症中心。被选中的学生将熟悉参与教师的实验室和临床地点正在进行的基础和临床研究，并选择一个研究问题。学员将参与实验的设计和执行，以及实验结果的分析。研究经验将通过生物静力学和负责任的研究行为中的道德考虑的短期课程得到补充。研究经验之后，将举行一个研讨会（定于下一个秋季季度），学生将在研讨会上展示他们的研究成果，这将成为未来课程的重要招聘机制。研讨会还将允许更正式地讨论兽医的研究导向职业以及获得这些职业的途径。 这项培训补助金支持的研究经验将加强DVM进入研究生课程或其他研究职业轨道的招聘，从而解决国家对兽医科学家的需求，这是我们生物医学研究力量的重要组成部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significant needs exist at the national level for skilled veterinary scientists who are trained in modern research methods, representing essential expertise in a biomedical research community that is increasingly utilizing (and benefitting from) comparative medical approaches. The purpose of this training grant application is to provide short term research experiences for professional veterinary medical students, allowing them to acquire specific technical and conceptual skills to perform hypothesis based research involving biochemical/molecular, tissue culture, and/or animal models of disease. The goal is to stimulate further interest in a research career, beginning with graduate educational opportunities that can include a combined DVM/MS program, or graduate education leading to a PhD following completion of the DVM. The summer research experience will focus upon students that have just completed the first year of the professional curriculum at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The college has the largest student population in the nation (140 per class), and has been able to increasingly recruit (and support) students wishing to explore research experiences. The program will be administered through the Department of Veterinary Biosciences (VBS), which has a well established interdisciplinary graduate faculty drawing from multiple components of the University Health Sciences Center. These basic and clinical sciences faculty represent the Colleges of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Childrens Hospital, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Selected students will acquaint themselves with ongoing basic and clinical research in the laboratories and clinical sites of participating faculty, and select a research problem. The trainees will participate in the design and execution of experiments, and analysis of experimental results. The research experience will be supplemented by short courses in biostatics and ethical considerations in the responsible conduct of research. The research experience will be followed by a symposium (scheduled during the following autumn quarter) in which students will present results of their research, this serving as an important recruiting mechanisms for future classes. The symposium will also be allow a more formal discussion of research oriented careers for veterinarians and pathways to obtain them. The research experience supported by this training grant will enhance recruitment of DVMs into graduate programs or other research career tracks, thereby addressing the national need for veterinary scientists that are an essential component of our biomedical research force.